In 2006 the manufacture introduced a new escapement that functioned
at a less frenetic 21,600 vph, but even at that time tests had shown
that the AP escapement was competent at running perfectly at 43,200 vph
or 6 hertz-even without lubrication in the pallet stones, which would
quickly dissipate at that speed anyway. The omission of lubricant solves
a problem which includes plagued watchmakers for as long as mechanical
timepieces have existed: gumming or hardening with the oil.
This fresh escapement will depend on an invention by Parisian royal
clockmaker Robert Robin (1742-1799). He created new system in 1791 that
combined the virtues of the two well-known escapements of the day,
so-called free-sprung escapement and one including energy transfer via
pallet fork and guard pin part of the precursor to your modern Swiss
lever escapement as introduced by Thosmas Mudge in 1759.
Audemars Piguet has succeeded in securing the attributes of both
systems in its new high-frequency escapement, solving the oil problem
and introducing a brand new and important ingredient of the overall
game: rate precision.”mehr sehen uhren schweizer und Tag Heuer
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